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The consortium comprises a partnership of five leading Huntington’s disease laboratories at Cedars-Sinai, the Gladstone Institutes, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts General Medical center and the University of California at Irvine. Svendsen, who joined the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute recently, is a prominent stem cell scientist whose groundbreaking research focuses on both modeling and treating neurodegenerative disorders such as ALS and Parkinson’s disease using a combination of stem cells and powerful growth factors. To joining Cedars-Sinai Prior, Svendsen offered as director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Stem Cell Training Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison and as editor of the Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Analysis.Food cops and politicians are attacking meals and soda options they don’t like. Have they gone too far? It’s your meal. It’s your drink. It’s your freedom.

Boston doctor training others to fight Ebola on front lines The death toll from Ebola in West Africa tops 4 now,500, and the spread of the deadly virus shows small sign of slowing. But among those fighting the condition is certainly a Boston doctor who looked after Ebola patients in your community, and is currently training other doctors, reports CBS Information correspondent Elaine Quijano.